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Holidays are over and the snow is still here. I think we are going to have another long winter like the one before. yesterday was the hunger day event but did not here anything on the BBC news at 22.30. Hope the event was advertised on radio and other programs. If we do no talk about the problems we will never get over them.Information is vital to let people know what is going on around the world and why. some paper did published articles but I think the main media ( the television ) should give more space to this events, but not in the early morning or other strange hours. Here is an extract from the time with links for more information.

A Sari State of Affairs: India’s Barefoot Revolution – Today’s Times

What would it be like if women ran the world?
India? Revolutions begin in unlikely locations.
Karen Bartlett from The Times went to The Hunger Project, India to meet Sangita Naika, Leader of her village council (Panchayat) in Borda, one of the million women across India at the forefront of a ”barefoot revolution”.
The Times article also features an interview with Rita Sarin described by Karen as ’an architect of the barefoot revolution and perhaps the person most responsible for its success’ . Of course, for us at The Hunger Project, Rita Sarin is our incredible Vice President and Country Director of The Hunger Project – India.
Rita Sarin will be speaking at the World Hunger Day Briefing in London on Sunday 9 January 2010. Some Tickets are still available for this event and also the World Hunger Day Gala Concert featuring Dionne Warwick & Friends.
Learn about our Programmes in India and Rita Sarin, Read about our work Strengthening Elected Women Leaders. More about President Obama’s recent visit to The Hunger Project – India.
Learn about our work Empowering Women around the World.
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In these 18 days of school closure for the holidays I have been cooking for the all family with our natural products and games. Finally the freezer is now going down a bit. I still have lots of vegetables and meat and this demonstrate that the all family could be fed if we are organised enough when collecting food from the wild, cultivating it more and preserving it more. When spring will came again I will be trying to preserve more dandelions, wild garlic and nettles leaves as they were superb in taste from the jars I kept. plus the ones I have boiled and kept in the freezer were good for making ravioli. When the big wooden house will be ready It will be the ideal space for preserving more wild food. Space was always a problem. i am very happy with the breads I am making, mixing poppy seeds, sesame seeds, caraway seeds to it. The roasted lamb preserved in a jar from last year Xmas meal left over was very good, and yesterday I have taken a jar of wild brown trout to be tried tonight. All the preserved food that has given a positive result is going to be noted in my  notebook and the experiment repeated again.
During the holidays we were eating a variety of food. Soups were very easy to make and good for the cold weather. Broth from pheasant and sheep neck bones was also very good. The day before yesterday I was given from Bruce a goose and yesterday I cooked the hart, the liver and the lungs with red wine adding a tbsp of oats and made a type of haggis. This is the first thing you should always eat of an animal.The big bird is now in the freezer all cleaned and ready for at least three more meals.

This is me getting the Small pieces of meat from the sheep neck after it has been roasted and served a full meal for all the family.After that I have boiled the neck bones for making a broth and more meat was carved out.It is incredible how much meat can you get from a single sheep neck and how many people can eat a meal from it.
Today I have harvested four remaining cabbages from the school garden as they were getting damaged. I have boiled them and I am waiting to get cool down before storing it in the freezer. It would be a shame to waste it. i will be probably using them with potato and filling for my pasta.Tonight I am having a broth made from the goose bones.It will be probably enough for three meals.just from bones and tiny bits of meat left attached to it.